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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7548717 | Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus that fuses and firmly adheres an unfixed developer onto a recording medium includes a heating roller and a pressure roller; a belt-shaped cleaning member that is disposed so as to abut on the heating roller and cleans the surface of the heating ro... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7483662 | Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A fixing apparatus that firmly adheres unfixed toner onto a recording sheet includes a first cleaning unit for cleaning up toner adhering to a surface of a heating roller by using a belt-shaped cleaning member, and a second cleaning unit for cleaning up toner adheri... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7362994 | Release agent application apparatus and method A release agent application apparatus includes a liquid-permeable member, a first release agent metering member abutting the liquid-permeable member, and a pump operatively connected to the liquid-permeable member to pump the release agent therethrough. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7263322 | Fuser smart cleaning and oiling assembly A smart and virgin contact fuser service assembly is disclosed for servicing a toner fuser assembly and includes (a) a cleaning device including a cleaning member having virgin cleaning portions on a cleaning surface, the virgin cleaning portions being feedable in a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7233764 | Fixing device in image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus with fixing device A fixing device includes: a fixing belt member configured to be endless and rotatable; driving force transmission members that are disposed on respective ends of the fixing belt member, and transmits a rotational driving force to the fixing belt member; and a pressi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7215916 | Endless metal belt, fixing belt and heat fixing device Objects of the present invention are to provide an endless metal belt superior in flexing resistance and durability, to provide a fixing belt using the endless metal belt, and to provide a heat fixing device with high durability and high reliability. The objects are... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215915 | Method and apparatus for variable width surface treatment application to a fuser The invention relates to application of a surface treatment to a fuser, typically in a print process. According to various aspects of the invention, methods and apparatus are provided for applying surface treatment to a fuser comprising varying a width of surface tr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196910 | Routing and labeling system for wires, cables, fibers and the like An apparatus for routing and mapping a wiring system includes a wire routing system adapted to facilitate the routing of wires about a structure and a wire labeling system that permits labeling of each wire routed utilizing the wire routing system. The wire routing ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190914 | Image heating apparatus having heater for externally heating fixing roller The image heating apparatus for heating a toner image formed on a recording material, includes a rotatable member; heating device for heating an outer peripheral surface of the rotatable member, the heating device including a heater for forming a heating nip portion... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187897 | Roll fuser apparatus An improvement in a Release Agent Management system that alleviates the buildup of dirt, toner and paper debris on a wick in the system includes a metering roll, a supply of release agent material into which the wick is positioned and a pair of metering blades posit... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7120380 | Electrostatographic apparatus having transport member with release oil-absorbing layer An electrostatographic reproduction apparatus includes: a primary imaging member for producing an electrostatic latent image on a receiver, a development station for applying toner particles to the latent image to form a developed toner image on the receiver, a fuse... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7068959 | Fuser oil contamination prevention and clean-up method Preventing the imaging forming process of an electrostatographic reproduction apparatus having a plurality of imaging modules in tandem relative to a receiver transport belt moveable along a transport path from becoming contaminated with fuser release oil. A substan... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061637 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively collating a stack of single-/double-sided recording sheets in a desired ejection tray An image forming apparatus includes first and second image carrying members, ejection trays, and a sheet transferring mechanism. The first image carrying member carries images in increasing order of corresponding sheet numbers. The second image carrying member carri... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7003254 | Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same An electromagnetic valve mounting portion is formed by upwardly cutting a bottom surface of a frame and bending the upwardly cut portion like a L-shape in such a manner as to have a top surface part extending in substantially parallel with the bottom surface thereof... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6959164 | Apparatus for cleaning a pressure roll in a fusing station The invention generally relates to the field of fusing powder toner images on receiver sheets. According to various aspects of the invention, methods and apparatus are provided of cleaning, only during standby, a pressure roller that cooperates with a fuser roller i... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950619 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a transferring-and-feeding unit (103) including a transfer belt (110). The transferring-and-feeding unit (103) is supported by a support frame (115) swingable in the direction away from image forming po... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944419 | Image forming apparatus and control method for the same An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit having a heat roller and a press roller which abuts against and presses the heat roller. The image forming apparatus further includes at least one cleaning unit including a backup roller which abu... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6875164 | High capacity leak resistant release agent delivery system for use in printer devices A toner release agent delivery system for a printing device utilizes a roller which has a plurality of layers of a non-woven textile web. The textile web is comprised of substantially all sub-denier fibers. The release agent delivery system with predominately sub-de... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6792236 | Fixing device for an image forming apparatus A recording medium having a toner image formed thereon is moved to pass through a press contact portion between an endless belt being heated and an pressure roller pressed against the endless belt. When passing through the press contact portion, the toner image is f... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6782230 | Fixing belt, and image heat fixing assembly In a fixing belt having at least a release layer and a metal layer formed of electroformed nickel, the electroformed nickel has, in its crystal texture, crystallites having an average size of 0.05 μm or more and 0.2 μm or less. This fixing belt has high durability... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6718155 | Fixing apparatus in which fixing speed is switched during cleaning An object of the present invention is to provide a fixing apparatus that has a fixing rotating member for holding and conveying a recording material supporting an unfixed image to perform fixation, driving device for driving the fixing rotating member, a cleaning ro... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6654584 | Pressure roller cleaner for a reproduction apparatus fuser assembly A fuser assembly for an electrostatographic reproduction apparatus including a fuser member and a pressure member, a release oil oiler system for the fuser assembly, and a cleaner for cleaning the pressure member. The pressure member cleaner has a cleanin... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6539195 | Cleaning device for a fixing unit A cleaning device for a fixing unit includes a winding shaft for holding a cleaning web and a sensor for detecting a trailing end of a cleaning web. A notched portion is formed in a winding shaft at a position opposing a detecting position of said sensor.... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6334041 | Fixing apparatus comprising a cleaning roller having a particular surface A fixing apparatus comprises a fixing section for fixing a developer image on a medium to which a developer image has been transferred by passing the medium between heat and press rollers, a cleaning roller made of metal and having a surface subjected to ... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6243558 | Fixing device, image forming apparatus with the fixing device, and method of fixing developing agent image A fixing device for a copying machine includes a heating roller having a heating portion therein, a press roller provided in rolling contact with the heating roller, and a cleaning mechanism for cleaning the heating roller and the press roller. The cleani... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6104906 | Blade device and fixing apparatus having the same A blade device includes an elongated elastic blade, and a support member, disposed along a longitudinal direction of the elastic blade, for supporting one end of the elastic blade in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Lateral end sec... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6091923 | Fixing device with wax and release agents There is provided a fixing device of an image forming apparatus in which a high quality image can be obtained through a small amount of release agent and toner offset can be prevented for a long period of time without fail. The fixing device includes a pa... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6072978 | Device for applying release agent to the surface of a fixing roller of an electrographic printer or copier A printer or copier which operates by transfer printing has a fixing roller for affixing toner to the recording medium. A release agent, or parting oil, is applied to the roller by a dosing tube having openings through which the release agent flows to a w... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5978640 | Electrostatographic recyclable cleaning unit and use method A configuration and method are disclosed for recyclably using a fixing roller cleaning device in an electrostatographic fixing station. In a principal embodiment, the cleaning device includes a cleaning web unit 13 installable in cassette fashion into a c... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5970298 | Fixing method and device with a controllable web system and image forming apparatus incorporating the method device and system A device, and method implemented by the device, employs a fixing device to heat and apply pressure to an image forming substance held on an image holding member so as to affix the image forming substance on the image holding member. The device includes a ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5950060 | Fixing device A fixing device of the belt system is provided in which slippage of a heating belt is prevented from occurring so that a recording member is stably transported, and the inner face of an end portion of the heating belt is prevented from being damaged. In a... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5937257 | Retractable oil reducing metering blade A Release Agent Management (RAM) system for a heat and pressure fuser apparatus utilized for fixing color toner images on substrates such as plain paper and transparency material such as Mylar™. A donor/metering roll arrangement is provided with two oil... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5937255 | Fuser having release agent supply means comprising fluororesin fibers A fuser having an oil applying felt composed of fluororesin fibers and touching to an oil applying roller. The oil applying felt is dipped in oil preserved in an oil tank at one end, so that the oil is elevated through capillarity and supplied to the oil ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5903809 | Cleaning assembly for a fixing device in image forming apparatus Wear of the surface of a heating roller caused by toner, paper powder and other like contaminants and a cleaning force are made uniform over a length of a heating roller by setting the press-contact force of a cleaning member with respect to each end port... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5852761 | Motorized wick for fusing apparatus A fuser for fixing a toner image to a receiver sheet includes a housing, a fusing roller mounted for rotation within the housing, and a rotatable wick for applying offset-preventing liquid to the fusing roller. The rotatable wick is adjustable between a f... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5800908 | Oil delivery sheet material for use in various printer devices The present invention is an improved device for delivering a release agent to fuser rollers employed in various printer devices, such as laser printers, fax machines, copier machines, etc. The release agent delivery device of the present invention compris... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5594540 | Fixing apparatus with a release oil applying member A fixing apparatus includes a fixing roller having a peeling-off layer at its peripheral surface, a rotating member for coming into contact with and for pressurizing the fixing roller, an applying member disposed on the fixing roller, and a cleaning membe... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5493375 | Oil control blade A method and apparatus for preventing the buildup of release agent material on a fuser roll structure. Release agent material is removed from a pressure roll structure using a blade in contact therewith. The blade supported in contact with the pressure ro... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5353106 | Pressure roll cleaner An apparatus for cleaning a rotatable cylindrical member such as a pressure roll of a fuser assembly includes an absorbent sheet having longitudinal sides joined at a seam and having a generally folded edge along a central longitudinal axis of the absorbe... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5343278 | Cleaning roll material and fixing apparatus In order to reliably clean a thermal fixing roll for fixing a non-fixed image in an image forming apparatus such as a copier or a laser beam printer, a non-woven fabric web having a crisscross structure or a parallel structure with a thermally bonded fibe... | 08/30/1994 |
